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brindusab1.bsky.social @brindusab1.bsky.social · Feb 4

🕊Peaceful Tuesday🕊

" ... what thrills me about trains is not their size or their equipment but the fact that they are moving, that they embody a connection between underneath places."
Marianne Wiggins

René Groebli b 1927 📷
Rail Magic Series
#PhotographyIsArt
🚂🚃🚃#TrainLovers🚃🚃🚂

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brindusab1.bsky.social @brindusab1.bsky.social · 2h

🌞🍁🌞Peaceful Thursday🌞🍁🌞

"If you're reading this...
Congratulations, you're alive.
If that's not something to smile about, then I don't know what is."
Chad Sugg

Guido Reni ( 1575-1642 ) The Rape of Europa 1637

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Anieska @anieska.bsky.social · 5h

Happy Thursday 🍂🍁🍂

“From every object we place
Something is born
Reminiscent of autumn.”
- Aratika Moritake 1452-1549

🎨 Katsushika Hokusai 1760-1849
“Sarumaru Dayu”

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brindusab1.bsky.social @brindusab1.bsky.social · 14h

My pleasure and good evening dear Anieska 🙏😊🎶🕊🎶🙋‍♀️

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brindusab1.bsky.social @brindusab1.bsky.social · 16h

#DonneAmiche 🫂🙋‍♀️

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Maria Alves @blue-dreamer953.bsky.social · 16h

A very special Woman 🫶🫶

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brindusab1.bsky.social @brindusab1.bsky.social · 17h

I always admired Audrey Hepburn.
Thanks and good evening dear Maria 🙏👏👏👏🌞🍁🌞🙋‍♀️

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Maria Alves @blue-dreamer953.bsky.social · 17h

Cecil Beaton photograph of Audrey Hepburn📷

Good afternoon dear Brindusa, a peaceful evening 🌄🌿🙏

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Klaus Herdepe @klausherdepe.bsky.social · 1d

Guten Morgen!
Ernst Joseph Thelott, * 8.10.1802 in Düsseldorf; † 1.5.1833 in Augsburg, war ein deutscher Porträtmaler 🎨 🇩🇪
Porträt einer älteren Frau in Straßenbekleidung und Bonnet, um 1826/27 🖼️
#OTD #ArtHistory #PortraitPainting #BskyArt #History

Porträt einer älteren Frau in Straßenbekleidung und Bonnet, um 1826/27

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bellarocca3 @bellarocca3.bsky.social · 1d

kinder.wdr.de/tv/die-sendu...
Herr von #Ribbeck hat einen großen Birnbaum
im Garten. Die Birnen verschenkt er an die Kinder, die dort vorbeikommen. Die Ballade von Theodor Fontane wurde von Otto #Sander vertont.

Herr von Ribbeck auf Ribbeck im Havelland

Herr von Ribbeck hat einen großen Birnbaum im Garten. Die Birnen verschenkt er an die Kinder, die dort vorbeikommen. Die Ballade von Theodor Fontane wurde von Otto Sander vertont.

kinder.wdr.de

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Michael @mdstamper.bsky.social · 2d

“Makahiya VI” by Florence Solis (Filipino–Canadian) - Acrylic on canvas / 2025 - EXPO CHICAGO, Navy Pier (Chicago, Illinois) #WomenInArt #WomanArtist #WomenPaintingWomen #WomensArt #art #artText #artwork #FlorenceSolis #Solis #ExpoChicago #MissionProjects #AcrylicArt #FilipinoArtist #CanadianArtist

A beautiful young woman facing calmly to our right, looks ahead with dark almond eyes as straight bangs curve across her forehead. Her features are softly modeled, emerging from a luminous field of blue-violet. From her head, lavish, roped waves of hair envelop her body like a cone. Threaded through the locks are countless fine, pale leaflets and beadlike specks like seeds that glint against the cool monochrome. No clothing is visible as her hair gathers and folds like a shawl, suggesting both warmth and weight. The background is a smooth gradient from indigo to orchid for a still, devotional composition. The overall effect is quiet, protective, and intensely focused on surface via glossy strands, delicate leaves, and a tender, private gaze.

Filipino–Canadian artist Florence Solis names this work for makahiya (Mimosa pudica), whose leaflets fold at a touch like an image of shyness that doubles as strategy. Her protagonists are modern icons built from digital collages, then translated into saturated acrylics, where hair, veils, and woven textures act as armor and constraint. She draws on Filipino folklore and craft, especially the delicacy and resilience of piña weaving, to think about the structures that shape women’s lives: “Threads bind, but they also connect.”

In Solis’s words, “Filipino women, much like the makahiya, have been taught to yield, to soften, to take up less space,” yet “beneath this quietness lies an undeniable force … that persists, adapts, and reclaims space.” The interlaced hair hints at touch-sensitivity and vigilance; the single-color glow reads like moonlight on water.

Shown with “The Mission Projects” at EXPO CHICAGO, “Makahiya VI” holds the paradox at the heart of her practice of vulnerability poised as power to ask whether these bindings are sanctuary, confinement, or the luminous seam where self-possession is made visible.

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Michael @mdstamper.bsky.social · 1d

“Closed“ by Monica Ikegwu (American) - Oil on canvas / 2021 - Baltimore Museum of Art (Maryland) #WomenInArt #WomenArtists #ArtText #WomanArtist #AmericanArtist #SelfPortrait #WomensArt #BaltimoreMuseumofArt #AfricanAmericanArtist #HipHopFashion #artwork #AfricanAmericanArt #Ikegwu #MonicaIkegwu

A beautiful young Black woman, American artist Monica Ikegwu herself, stands before a field of saturated crimson, the hue echoing across background, coat, and lipstick. She glances back over her left shoulder with a level, downward gaze. The high-gloss, quilted puffer coat is zipped and drawn close; deep, crisp folds gather at the collar and sleeves, catching pinpoint highlights that read like flashes on vinyl. Only a sliver of bare shoulder peeks out from the jacket. Her left hand rises just under her chin. Her hair is pulled into a low ponytail while her brows are neat and mouth composed. The red-on-red palette collapses space so the figure seems almost 3D, her silhouette defined by value shifts rather than outline. Hyper-real textures like stitched seams, knuckled fingers, specks of light on the coat contrast with the velvety, brush-quiet background.

In "Closed," paired with its companion "Open" (posted by me a few months ago on Bluesky), Ikegwu uses fashion as psychology: a zipped coat becomes armor; an unzipped one (in the other panel) signals exposure and ease. The monochrome crimson operates like a mood conveying heat, attention, and power while also flattening context so that presence itself is the subject. Ikegwu calls her practice a study of “perception… how people are viewed and how they want to appear,” and she aims to “capture the person… their essence” without forcing them into someone else’s ideal. Here, the artist stages herself as both model and message, aligning with hip-hop’s sartorial codes where outerwear telegraphs status and stance.

The downward gaze reads regal rather than deferent; the hand near the chin, a pivot between reserve and declaration. Painted in 2021, while the Baltimore-born artist was consolidating a hyper-real, figure-forward language, "Closed" reflects her broader project: celebrating Black self-presentation including youth, attitude, and choice through academic precision sharpened by contemporary style.

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Michael @mdstamper.bsky.social · 1d

"La Carmencita" by John Singer Sargent (American) - Oil on canvas / c. 1890 - Musée d’Orsay (Paris, France) #WomenInArt #dancer #performer #JohnSingerSargent #Sargent #art #artText #artwork #PortraitofaWoman #Muséed’Orsay #BlueskyArt #ArtoftheDay #AmericanArtist #BelleÉpoque #GildedAge #VictorianArt

Known onstage as La Carmencita, the sitter is Carmen Dauset Moreno, a Spanish dancer who dazzled audiences in Paris, London, and New York. American artist John Singer Sargent was already famous and had recently settled in London after the “Madame X” scandal when he became captivated by her modern theatrical charisma.

She stands against a dark, neutral backdrop, lit as if by a stage spotlight. Her torso tilts proudly, hands at her waist, chin lifted in calm command. Her black hair is swept up with a flower while warm pink makeup accents her lips and cheeks. Wrapped across her shoulders is a shimmering mantón de Manila with long fringe; beneath it billows an incandescent orange-gold dress, its tiered skirt densely embroidered with silvered motifs that catch the light. The hem arcs outward like a dancer’s twirl halted mid-motion. One satin shoe peeks forward, toes angled, the other leg receding into shadow. Her skin reads fair-to-light in this lighting; the costume’s saturated hue and metallic highlights amplify her presence. The paint handling shifts from crisp facial modeling to fluid, bravura strokes in the fabric and fringe, so that light, texture, and movement become part of the portrait’s character.

Sargent fuses portrait and performance: the dancer’s assertive pose, the flared silhouette, and the showman’s lighting convert a studio interior into a stage. The mantón and bright silk read as markers of a cosmopolitan, Andalusian-inflected style then thrilling European and American audiences, while the sitter’s composed gaze resists cliché, asserting control over how she is seen. The painting quickly became a sensation: shown in New York (1890) and London (1891), it affirmed Sargent’s virtuosity with sumptuous surfaces and psychological poise. In 1892 the French state acquired the work for the Musée du Luxembourg (the first museum home for living artists) before its transfer to the Musée d’Orsay.

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Michael @mdstamper.bsky.social · 1d

“Jeune fille en vert aka Jeune fille aux gants” (Young Woman in Green aka Young Woman with Gloves) by Tamara de Lempicka (Polish-born, later Mexican) – Oil on plywood / c. 1927–1930 – Musée national d’Art moderne, Centre Pompidou (Paris, France) #WomenInArt #art #artText #TamaradeLempicka #Lempicka

Created in Paris after her escape from the Russian Revolution, "Jeune fille en vert" embodies Tamara de Lempicka’s fusion of Cubist geometry and Art Deco glamour. Born Tamara Górska in Warsaw in 1898, she rebuilt her life and name in exile, studying with Maurice Denis and André Lhote. By the late 1920s, she was painting aristocrats, actresses, and lovers with lacquered precision with her brush crafting a visual language of female autonomy.

We see a light-skinned young woman in a vivid green satin dress from the waist up, turned three-quarters left beneath a wide white hat. Honey-blond curls arc along her cheek as she lowers the brim with her right hand in a white glove; her left gloved hand seemingly reaches out at her side, fingers slightly splayed. The dress clings and ripples in high-gloss folds; a sheer green scarf runs diagonally across her chest and bursts behind her right shoulder as a large, crisp bow. Hard-edged light carves the planes of her face and arms, leaving a clean crescent shadow under the hat and deep seams in the satin. Her warm red lips and sidelong gaze are poised and self-possessed. A shallow backdrop of angled gray panels suggests an urban or stage-like space.

Openly bisexual, Lempicka moved through Paris’s queer avant-garde, depicting women with unapologetic sensuality. “I live life in the margins of society,” she said, defying norms of gender and respectability. Though not a declared feminist, her career embodied feminist practice: financially independent, self-invented, and commanding male-dominated circles through talent and style.

This anonymous woman in green is simultaneously a muse, mirror, and mask as Lempicka distilled the paradox she lived: desire bound in discipline, beauty shaped into power.

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Maria Alves @blue-dreamer953.bsky.social · 1d

#quote

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Maria Alves @blue-dreamer953.bsky.social · 1d

#quotes

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Maria Alves @blue-dreamer953.bsky.social · 1d

Boa noite 👥🍂🌿🫶

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Maria Alves @blue-dreamer953.bsky.social · 1d

James Tissot's 🖌️Rise to Stardom and the Unknown Side of the 19th-Century Painter

Buenas noches Agustín, hasta mañana 🙏💫🫂🍂

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Maria Alves @blue-dreamer953.bsky.social · 1d

Bom dia👥🍂🌿🌻☕

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Anieska @anieska.bsky.social · 2d

Allan Edgar Poe 🌹
American poet, novelist,short story writer,literary critic, playwright
+October 7 1949,40 years
Many of his stories prefigure the genres of science fiction and fantasy

"Those who dream while awake are aware of a thousand things that escape those who dream only while asleep."

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Anieska @anieska.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Wednesday 🎶

"The piano kissed by a frail hand
Glows in the pink evening and
A very old, very weak, and very charming air
Wanders discreetly”
- Paul Verlaine.

🎨 Vilhelm Hammershøi
Danish painter (1864-1916)
“Interior with Piano and Woman Dressed in Black”
Randers Kunstmuseum, Denmark

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Anieska @anieska.bsky.social · 1d

Franck Herbert🌹
(*October 8, 1920
+February 11, 1986)
Writer, author of science fiction novels, owes his fame primarily to the 1965 novel "Dune" and the series of five novels that followed”

"To transform envy into enmity, all it takes is the slightest suggestion, the slightest shift of emotion."

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brindusab1.bsky.social @brindusab1.bsky.social · 1d

🕊🍁🕊It's Wednesday🕊🍁🕊

"The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious.
The desire to reach hearts is wise."
Maya Angelou

Cecil Beaton ( 1904-1980 ) 📷
Maria Callas 1956
#PhotographyIsArt

Maria Callas/Habanera/Bizet 1962
youtu.be/EseMHr6VEM0?...

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Beth Levin @betheena.bsky.social · 1d

myaskofiev 2

Odessa-born pianist Shura Cherkassky (7 Oct 1909-1995) made his American debut in 1923. His parents maintained that he was two years younger in order to prolong his time as a child prodigy. Even in 1927 on an Australian tour he was billed as "The World's Greatest Boy Pianist".

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brindusab1.bsky.social @brindusab1.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you so much for your lovely words dear Anieska 🙏☔️🍁☔️🙋‍♀️

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brindusab1.bsky.social @brindusab1.bsky.social · 2d

Oh yes, it was a wonderful day 🙏😘🌞🦢🌞
As of this morning, it's raining, getting cold ... autumn is back.
Thanks and have a great day dear Anieska 🙏🙋‍♀️